Go west, lady
One of the most inspiring work karma stories I've ever encountered personally was the following: A lady, let's call her Jane, began to work for my company. She was a contracts manager and was pretty...
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Overheard at work bingo
Work email bingo
Agile hate
My company recently started working in Agile. I've been in pseudo-Agile environments before, aka a bunch of little waterfalls that management wants to think is Agile. This post gave me some food for...
Inception is a documentary
People at my work out here like, "I remember watching a documentary called Inception in the early 2010s. Why does our company not use this technology yet?"
Toxic boss's target
From Threads: Toxic bosses rarely change. They just change targets. You are never safe, even if you think it could never happen to you because you’ve been “accepted” in the in group. You are never...
A Pretty Good Lyft
This was a really cool story that Mike Rowe posted to Facebook: Last week in Baltimore, Uber charged me $85 for a trip that usually costs $20. I looked into the way their "surge pricing" model...
Best out of office message
Clap back at overwork
Performance evaluations
Waste of my medicine
From a meme: Normalize ADHDers being able to say "this is a waste of my medicine" during work meetings
The 8 hour work day
Direct your energy
Iced coffee truth
Emotionally invested
Nancy Mace is a toxic boss
I worked for someone who was similarly toxic. I hope Mace and my ex-boss end up selling oranges on the side of a freeway on-ramp. Nancy Mace Is So Toxic That Her Entire Staff Ditched Her: “If she...
The shame of work
This is a great book review looking deeper into the obsession with work and work resisters. The Shame of Work: In its place was a somewhat nightmarish and dystopian warning call. The movie depicted...
We’re killing ourselves with work
The one thing I'm happy I've maintained from my foreign culture is that I don't see work as an integral part of my identity. I want to do a good job, but work ends when I leave. We’re Killing...
Curse of competence
Exchanging knowledge
Owe nothing
Independent contractor
Company messed with the wrong guy
Karen boss reveals herself
I'm getting heavy Karen vibes from the letter writer. And always remember that the company doesn't ultimately care about you: I’m just kind of floored that she’s getting gift cards after speaking to...
Can't Afford To Pay My Workers
Culture of immediacy
Gen Z work ethic
Use your PTO
Unique skill
Toxic work environment
Discussing salary
Finding everyday heroes
I have this co-worker on a team full of people who manufacture idiotic crises that don't actually matter. I was talking to her on Friday and she was talking about how vital she was to the company...